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CUSSONIA holstii Engl. [family ARALIACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, Author: J. R. TENNANT
Names
CUSSONIA holstii Engl. [family ARALIACEAE], in Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1894: 64 (1894); Harms in E. & P. Pf. 3 (8): 54 (1894) & in P.O.A. C: 298 (1895); Lebrun in B.J.B.B. 13: 17 (1934); T.S.K.: 115 (1936); F.P.N.A. 1: 691 (1948); T.T.C.L.: 59 (1949); I.T.U., ed. 2: 34 (1952); Tennant in K.B. 14: 223 (1960); K.T.S.: 52 (1961). Types: Tanganyika, Usambara Mts., “Mbindi” [probably near Mlalo], Holst (B, holo. †); Mlalo, Semsei 2829 (K, neo.!, EA, isoneo.)
Information
A tree to 20 m. tall with a straight bole sometimes exceeding 1 m. in diameter and 10 m. or more tall in well grown specimens; bark rather fissured, shed in oblong papery scales. Leaves digitately compound; petiole up to 41.5 cm. long, glabrous or virtually so; lamina up to 36 cm. wide by about half as long; leaflets 3–7, chartaceous, ovate, up to 18.5 cm. long by 9 cm. wide, acuminate to caudate, with a cuneate to cordate, symmetric or asymmetric base, with serrate to crenate or entire margin, glabrous or puberulous, often with very fine silky-white scattered hairs and sometimes a few short crisped hairs; petiolules up to 7 cm. long; juvenile leaves (fig. 2/3, 4) simple, palmately lobed. Flowering spikes up to 30 together, usually less than 15, up to 25 cm. long, dense or somewhat lax; floral bracts scale-like, with or without an apiculum, or peg-like, nearly glabrous or densely pubescent. Fruits 4–6 mm. long, glabrous or puberulous, sometimes galled (see note on p. 1).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, Author: J. R. TENNANT
Names
CUSSONIA holstii Engl. [family ARALIACEAE], in Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1894: 64 (1894); Harms in E. & P. Pf. 3 (8): 54 (1894) & in P.O.A. C: 298 (1895); Lebrun in B.J.B.B. 13: 17 (1934); T.S.K.: 115 (1936); F.P.N.A. 1: 691 (1948); T.T.C.L.: 59 (1949); I.T.U., ed. 2: 34 (1952); Tennant in K.B. 14: 223 (1960); K.T.S.: 52 (1961). Types: Tanganyika, Usambara Mts., “Mbindi” [probably near Mlalo], Holst (B, holo. †); Mlalo, Semsei 2829 (K, neo.!, EA, isoneo.)
Information
A tree to 20 m. tall with a straight bole sometimes exceeding 1 m. in diameter and 10 m. or more tall in well grown specimens; bark rather fissured, shed in oblong papery scales. Leaves digitately compound; petiole up to 41.5 cm. long, glabrous or virtually so; lamina up to 36 cm. wide by about half as long; leaflets 3–7, chartaceous, ovate, up to 18.5 cm. long by 9 cm. wide, acuminate to caudate, with a cuneate to cordate, symmetric or asymmetric base, with serrate to crenate or entire margin, glabrous or puberulous, often with very fine silky-white scattered hairs and sometimes a few short crisped hairs; petiolules up to 7 cm. long; juvenile leaves (fig. 2/3, 4) simple, palmately lobed. Flowering spikes up to 30 together, usually less than 15, up to 25 cm. long, dense or somewhat lax; floral bracts scale-like, with or without an apiculum, or peg-like, nearly glabrous or densely pubescent. Fruits 4–6 mm. long, glabrous or puberulous, sometimes galled (see note on p. 1).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, Author: J. R. TENNANT
Names
CUSSONIA holstii Engl. [family ARALIACEAE], in Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1894: 64 (1894); Harms in E. & P. Pf. 3 (8): 54 (1894) & in P.O.A. C: 298 (1895); Lebrun in B.J.B.B. 13: 17 (1934); T.S.K.: 115 (1936); F.P.N.A. 1: 691 (1948); T.T.C.L.: 59 (1949); I.T.U., ed. 2: 34 (1952); Tennant in K.B. 14: 223 (1960); K.T.S.: 52 (1961). Types: Tanganyika, Usambara Mts., “Mbindi” [probably near Mlalo], Holst (B, holo. †); Mlalo, Semsei 2829 (K, neo.!, EA, isoneo.)
Information
A tree to 20 m. tall with a straight bole sometimes exceeding 1 m. in diameter and 10 m. or more tall in well grown specimens; bark rather fissured, shed in oblong papery scales. Leaves digitately compound; petiole up to 41.5 cm. long, glabrous or virtually so; lamina up to 36 cm. wide by about half as long; leaflets 3–7, chartaceous, ovate, up to 18.5 cm. long by 9 cm. wide, acuminate to caudate, with a cuneate to cordate, symmetric or asymmetric base, with serrate to crenate or entire margin, glabrous or puberulous, often with very fine silky-white scattered hairs and sometimes a few short crisped hairs; petiolules up to 7 cm. long; juvenile leaves (fig. 2/3, 4) simple, palmately lobed. Flowering spikes up to 30 together, usually less than 15, up to 25 cm. long, dense or somewhat lax; floral bracts scale-like, with or without an apiculum, or peg-like, nearly glabrous or densely pubescent. Fruits 4–6 mm. long, glabrous or puberulous, sometimes galled (see note on p. 1).
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